Actually, Kazaa didn't exist then (or if it did, no one I knew was aware of it. I mean, Napster hadn't even come out yet!).

Also, no one wanted anything to do with any Apple product back then, because 1) they were heinously overpriced and 2) they sucked balls for doing anything worthwhile.

As I recall, 1998 was endless LAN games of Quake II if you were lucky and had friends who could LAN with you, and endless games of Phatasmagoria or Doom II, if you were alone/your computer was too slow for Quake. Then Starcraft came out, everyone upgraded their computers, and no one in my dorm went to class for about 2 weeks straight.

1998 for me was losing my virginity to a bisexual stripper, having a high paying job in software engineering and our biggest national problem was our President getting a blowjob. It all went down from there.

1998. My first cable modem. Which, incidentally, downloaded at a faster speed than this FARKING SUPPOSEDLY 4G PHONE AAGGHH...I'm better now. Anyway, the thrill of checking out eBay for the latest Beanie Baby deals, the discovery of things called "binaries" on Usenet (OK, so that was a few years earlier -- the cable modem simply made them usable). Budget surpluses, no significant wars, the internet bubble, yeah, it was a pretty interesting time.

Let see, I was doing the Satanic goth thing. I was in the Church of Satan AOL chatroom and IRC channel. Netscape was cool. Civ2 was great. High school sucked. A pornographic picture took a bit to load, but we had the Starr Report.

Yep. Warez chat rooms in IRC, also ones that distributed mp3s. Total wild west. I'm sure porn via FTP too... but I was one of the first to get a cable modem (we were a test market)... so normal porn sites worked for me without the buffering... buffering... buffering...

Depending on which half of 1998 it was, I was a junior or senior in HS. My family still had AOL dialup internet. You were cool if you had a pager. (I didn't.) Cell phones weren't really widespread yet. My family got a DVD player that year that was marked down from its regular $400 price because it was the display model.

I can't remember if it was 98 or 99, but I was playing Ultima Online about that time. Then Everquest came out and blew my mind. We also never used AOL. We had some local ISP that we connected to.Other than that and not using Kazaa till the next decade, pretty accurate.

You have access to the sum total of all human knowledge literally in the palm of your hand, and you can access it from virtually anywhere on the planet, day or night, and you're complaining that it's not fast enough for you? Jesus Christ! You're living in Star Trek and you don't even have to say "Computer..." before every command! It's goddamn amazing!

1998...In retrospect it was a good time for me. I was 25, and although I make more money now my living expenses were at historical lows. I had no GF or other responsibilities so most of my paycheck went towards wine, women, and song. It was pretty awesome now that I look back on it.

Mugato:1998 for me was losing my virginity to a bisexual stripper, having a high paying job in software engineering and our biggest national problem was our President lying to a federal grand jury about getting a blowjob. It all went down from there.

1998, I think I had cable internet, I bought a Gateway system for $1500. Downloaded countless music from Napster when it was cool, I still have some of the porn I downloaded back then. Spending an hour just to get a fat girl to undress in chat rooms, then immediatly closing them out and blocking them. Was Countersrike at that time? I did a tag hack, so many people were complaining because I used a naked grandma and tagged every wall I could all the time, some people started to get sick from seeing it so much. Feels like another lifetime ago.